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TRACE BUCKLE. No. 288,475. Patented Nov. 13, 1883..

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NORTH TRACE-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,475, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed September 24, 1883. (No model.)

showing the buckle asattached to the tug and.

with the trace engaged; Fig. 2, a side view of 5 the same; Fig. 3, a face view of the buckle; Fig. 4, a face view showing a modification of the forward extension. This invention relates to an improvement in buckles such as used in the attachment of the trace of aharness, commonly called tracebuckles.

A buckle having a hinged tongue, and such as are now called old-fashioned buckles, possesses certain advantages over the modern stationary-tongue buckles, from the fact that at the point where the tongue passes through the trace thetrace is bent out of line and practically clamps against the forward bar of the buckle, whereas in stationary-tongue buckles as usually constructed the bar on which the tongue is hinged is sofarbelow the rear bar, beneath which the trace passes,that the trace is not bent out of its direct line; but the draft on the stationary tongue is direct and without any material bending or clamping action upon the trace by the bar at the rear. This brings so great a strain upon the tongue or stud that it is necessary to make the support for the tongue disproportionatelylarge to the remain- 40 der of the buckle.

The object of my invention is to construct a buckle with a stationary tongue arranged in relation to the rear bar, under which the trace passes, and so that the trace will assume substantially the same relation to the rear bar that it does in a common hinge-tongue buckle that is to say, will produce the same bend or clamping action upon the trace; and in such a construction of buckle, as more fully hereinafter described, my invention consists.

slightly above the plane of the bar 1), as seen 1y right angles to the plane of the frame.

A A represent the two sides of the frame of the buckle; B,the rear end bar, which may or may not be provided with a loop, C, for the attachment of the breeching-strap; D, a bar connecting the two sides, and to which the tug is attached. The sides extend beyond the bar D, and at their extreme ends are connected by a bar, E, forming a loop, F, at the forward end of the buckle, the forward bar, E, being raised in Fig. 1. The tug is doubled around the bar D, and the outer part of the tug turned forward through the loop F and beneath the bar E, as seen in Fig. 1, whereby the forward bar, E, takes a bearing outside the trace.

Between the bars B and D is a transverse bar, G, which stands in substantially the same plane as the bar B, and upon this bar is a stud,

H, proj ecting outward in a plane at substantial- The upper and lower sides of the buckle-frame are provided, respectively, with the usual loops, I L. r

The trace M is passed through the space be tween the two bars B Gas it would be in a common tongue-buckle, and when brought to the required position is turned down to bring the hole in the trace onto the stud H, as seen in Fig. 1, and then the forward end tucked into the loop N on the tug I. This arrangement makes a bend in the trace inside the rear bar and over the tongue-bar substantially the same as in a common tongue-buckle, and whereby a great amount of friction is produced upon the trace by the bar B, substantially as andto the same extent as in the common tongue buckle, and so that the stationary stud H is relieved from a very large proportion 'of the strain which would be brought upon it were it not for this bend in the trace against the bar B. The forward bar, E, extending beyond the bar D and outside the tug, the buckle is held firmly inits position in the tug and in the direct line of strain, and cannot be turned in the tug, so as to permit the trace to accidentally slip from engagement with the stud or tongue H.

The stud H maybe placed upon the extreme forward bar, E. The bar G in its relation to the bar B produces the bend in the trace, and nearly the same advantage would be attained loo by placing the tongue or stud on the forward bar; yet Lprefer to place the stud on the bar G.

Instead of "making the forward extension of the buckle-frame of loop-like form, so as to insure the buckle being held in substantially the same plane as the tug, that extension may be in the form of a plate, as seen in Fig. 4, and be riveted to the tug, it only being essential that there shall be an extension at the forward end of the buckle, which, in connection with the tug, will hold the frame in substantially the same plane as the tug itself, and so as to prevent the buckle turning in its connection with the tug.

I claim 1. The herein-described trace-buckle, consisting of the two sides A A, the rear bar, 13,

and the tug-bar D, connecting the two sides, the intermediate transverse bar, G, in substantially the same plane as the bar B, the

frame extended forward of the tug-bar, so as to make engagement with the tug and prevent the frame from turning in the tug, and the stud or tongue H, projecting outward from the frame at substantially right angles to the plane of the buckle, substantially as described.

2. Atrace-buckle consisting of the two sides A A, therear bar, B, the tug-bar D, connecting said two sides, the bar E forward of the tug-bar, and forming a loop, F, the transverse bar G midway between the front and rear bars, and in substantially the same plane as the rear bar, B, and the stud or tongue H, projecting outward from the frame at substantially right angles thereto, substantially as described.

JAMES OBRIEN.

WVitnesses:

MARTIN F. DAVIS, H. H. FRINK. 

